OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from de Josselin de Jong (1947): Ili'uun Erai

ma

•  auxiliary expressing temporal or modal dependence, usually translatable with "when" or "if".

amima otjowhen we see

amima nōif we gave it up

nimatehaif he accepts

Note: Probably this ma is identical with ma 'come'